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The Craig and Christy Smith Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Craig and Christy Smith Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2021
8
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Religion$10kHealth$8kAnimals$3kEnvironment$2kEducation$2kYouth Development$2kArts & Culture$1kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2021 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$29k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Grace Ministries Int't$2,500
Body & Soul Youth Development Ctr$500
Special Olympics Kansas$500
Big Brothers Big Sisters$500
Alzheimer's Association$500
American Heart Assoc$262
American Cancer Society$250
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Kansas$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Adopt a Family: $325 → 6%Lavalett Montessori: $3k → 27%Palm Beach County Fire Fighters: $50 → 11%Body & Soul Youth Development Ctr: $500 → 13%Miami Rescue Mission: $500 → 15%Grace Ministries Int't: $3k → 11%Special Olympics Kansas: $500 → 5%Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens: $2k → 7%Alzheimer's Association: $500 → 16%Nelson-Atkins Museum: $1k → 15%Target - Adopt a Family: $189 → 6%Palm Beach County Fire Fighters: $25 → 11%American Heart Assoc: $262 → 5%Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens: $20 → 7%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Kansas: $250 → 16%Wayside Waifs: $2k → 15%Palm Beach County Fire Fighters: $25 → 11%Overland Parkt Police Officers Foundation: $450 → 5%The Church of the Resurrection: $112 → 16%Wayside Waifs: $1k → 15%Church of the Resurrection: $3k → 5%Big Brothers Big Sisters: $500 → 16%Church of the Resurrection: $25 → 5%Arthritis Foundation Kansas Chapter: $1k → 16%Arthritis Foundation Kansas Chapter: $500 → 16%Arthritis Foundation Kansas Chapter: $500 → 16%Kapaun Mount Carmel Catholic High School: $1k → 16%Kapaun Mount Carmel Catholic High School: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MO
AZ
KS
AR
TN
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24k · 15 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
7

Total granted

$24k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-14%

Still filing today

40%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthAnimalsRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WW
    WAYSIDE WAIFS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +14%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +33%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • NM
    Nelson-Atkins Museum
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • MR
    Miami Rescue Mission Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $500 · revenue -14%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Colorado State Fire Chiefs

The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.

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4
American Society of Anesthesiologists

Advancing the practice and securing the future of anesthesiology through medical education, creation and dissemination of new knowledge, improvement of patient care, and legislative and regulatory advocacy.

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5
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
6
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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7
Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis

Always with the goal of working toward a safer, more livable city, our mission is to improve working conditions for our members - police officers who work in minneapolis - and to make certain their rights are protected.

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8
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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9
Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc

The make-a-wish foundation of the mid-atlantic creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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10
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
11
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
12
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STUDENT MOBILIZATION INC: $3,600 · OtherSTUDENT MOBILIZATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $3,078 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION: $2,761 · OtherCHURCH OF THE RESURRECTIONGrace Ministries Int't: $2,500 · OtherGrace Ministries Int'tOverland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens: $2,020 · OtherOverland Park Arboretum and Botanical GardensArthritis Foundation Kansas Chapter: $2,000 · OtherArthritis Foundation Kansas ChapterKapaun Mount Carmel Catholic High School: $2,000 · OtherKapaun Mount Carmel Catholic High SchoolAmerican Cancer Society: $1,500 · OtherAmerican Cancer SocietyNelson-Atkins Museum: $1,350 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,250 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters: $1,000 · Other+9 more: $3,354 · Other+9 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,512 · HealthAmerican …ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,250 · HealthALZHEIMER…WAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $2,500 · AnimalsSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC: $1,250 · Recreation & SportsMiami Rescue Mission Inc: $500 · Housing & ShelterOverland Park Police Officers Foundation: $450 · Philanthropy
Other$26,413Health$2,762Animals$2,500Recreation & Sports$1,250Housing & Shelter$500Philanthropy$450

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,512 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CORAL SPRINGS LODGE 87: $725 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMiami Rescue Mission Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOverland Park Police Officers Foundation: $450 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CORAL SPRINGS LODGE 87 ↗
  • Who funds Miami Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds Overland Park Police Officers Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF KANSAS INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Craig and Christy Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Craig and Christy Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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